Bull elephant charge captured on gopro
There are a lot of crazy things on my bucket list.
Being charged by a wild bull elephant- wasn’t one of them.
I have grown up partly in the jungles, had a lot of close encounters with wildlife, but this one is something I will remember for a long, long time.
During a recent trip to Bandipur-Mudumalai, through fault of my own, I ended up way too close to a wild tusker.
The inevitable short mock charge that followed, was one of the few heart stopping moments I’ve ever had in my life.
I am thankful, but surprised that the enraged pachyderm didn’t press home the charge - for there was nothing between us except a few feet of open ground.
The moral of the story is in Rudyard Kipling’s laws of the jungle, from the jungle book: "Now this is the law of the jungle, as old and as true as the sky,
And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
Keep peace with the lords of the jungle, the tiger, the panther, the bear;
And trouble not Hathi (the elephant) the Silent, and mock not the boar in his lair.” #wildelephants#animalsattack#wildencounters#closeencounters#bulltuskers#tusker#elephantcharge#naturesfury#angrywildlife#angryanimals#wildlifeplanet#wildindia#respectwildlife#respectthejungle